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Oct 15, 2021 · Inspired, the artist painted Enough About You, which warps the 18th-century work beyond recognition, save for the boy’s portrait, which is framed in gold. Kaphar’s subject stares directly at...
- Nora Mcgreevy
New light on the group portrait of Elihu Yale, his family, and an enslaved child. From October 2020 through May 2021, an eighteenth-century painting on display at the Yale Center for British Art was replaced by Titus Kaphar’s Enough About You (2016). What follows is an explanation of why this change was made and a description of the ongoing ...
Oct 13, 2021 · Kaphar’s riposte, a 2016 painting titled “Enough About You,” collapsed the four white men into a crumpled blur and transformed the boy into a defiant personality, rid of his collar, who...
Oct 6, 2021 · Kaphar’s riposte, a 2016 painting titled Enough About You, collapsed the four white men into a crumpled blur and transformed the boy into a defiant personality, rid of his collar, who...
- Nancy Kenney
The portrait was removed from display in 2021 and replaced with another work by Kaphar called Enough About You for eight months, on loan from the art collectors Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen.
Titus Kaphar '06MFA created a painting that highlights a Black boy in a historical portrait of Elihu Yale and his family. The artwork is part of Yale's reckoning with its past ties with slavery and racism.
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In September, Courtney J. Martin discusses the Elihu Yale research project and Titus Kaphar’s Enough About You (2016) in an interview with Nancy Kenney: “Director of Yale Center for British Art embraces a global framework,” Art Newspaper (Sept. 10).
